This book focuses on the relationship between literary culture, power, society and war. It assesses the critical importance of Michel Foucault's lecture series Society Must Be Defended for contemporary debates about war and terror in literary and cultural studies, as well as social and political thought.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2008

ISBN

9780230584334

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Political Philosophy

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
1 Life Struggles: War, Discipline and Biopolitics in the Thought of Michel Foucault
2 Poetry Must Be Defended: Post-Waterloo Responses to ‘Power’s Ode to Itself’
3 Sovereignty, Biopolitics and the Use of Literature: Michel Foucault and Kathy Acker
4 Michel Foucault: Biopolitics and Biology
5 Biopolitics, Biological Racism and Eugenics
6 Some Reflections on Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended and the Idea of ‘Race’
7 War and Peace, or Governmentality as the Ruin of Democracy
8 Necropolitics
9 Torture, Terrorism and Colonial Sovereignty
10 ‘Manual for a Raid’ and ‘Henslowe’s Diary’: Foucault and the Multiple Meanings of the Document
11 Foucault, Auden and Two New York Septembers
Index